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Theme 10: Culture and Politics in an
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Culture-Diversity in the
Informaion Society and How Political Power can
be Transformed to Public Policy and Popular Culture |
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Kallirroi
Nicolis, Vice
President of Social Aid of Hellas |
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Official Representative
in the UN Congresses, Athens, Greece |
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"Cultura animi philosophia est"- Culture
is a philosophy of the soul. The great Roman Orator
Cicero (106-43BC) wrote this phrase and introduced
the word culture in the human vocabulary. While
the word "civilization" is a rather new
word expressed and used first in England during
the 18th c.(1772). According to Alfred Weber, the
Civilization expresses the technical human knowledge
while by Culture we mean the values, the ideals
and the way we react and express our feelings,
in one word culture is our spirit.
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In our rapidly evolving society many catalyzing
changes emphasize the dynamic and change-oriented
nature of culture. Because in the concept “culture” we
add as an appropriate prerequisite the images and
perception of the “diversity.” So the
idea of the culture-diversity is not to create
only a traditional general plan covering society's
development and the management of how actions to
be taken over the course of a limited and exclusive
time and place span, but to take into serious consideration |
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1. Human Knowledge, covering: a) The specific
culture of a country or a community and their opinion
about the world b) At the same time other cultures
existing in the same country and community c) That
not all countries have same vision about the world,
meaning that the different perspectives have their
own logic and value d) Existing common stereotypes
in the community with regard to others. |
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2. Aptitudes : a) Detecting prejudices, stereotypes
and egocentric attitudes. b) Distinguishing different
points of view in the oral and written speech and
in the media c) Being able to perceive the ways
of life and beliefs of others. |
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3. Attitudes: a) Valuing positively the cultural
diversity and the alternative points of view. b)
Respecting those that might look different. c)
Being able to distinguish the common and ordinary
group of features of the people. Peoples saw the
value of the cultural diversity through the knowledge
of contemporary information. Media and Internet
open windows of knowledge and information processing.
We will present this chapter with details, using
transparencies and giving up-to-date dates. |
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Information can shift the parameters of cultural
diversity and give voice to minorities promoting
their presence and their identity. Also in recent
years the role of women in peace-building through
information and knowledge has been increasingly
recognized. One of the strategic objectives of
the Gender Equality in the Sector for the Social
and Human Sciences is to explore the gender dynamics
of conflict, peace-building and reconstruction
and how this Movement for peace can transform a
sheer political power into public policy and by
supporting women's initiatives for peace into an
active popular and creating culture. |
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Information processing is not to create a traditional
milieu for cultural diversity but to develop a
dynamic framework that will encourage better planning
and steady social cohesion. |
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Les Peuples Auchtoctiones
Dans La Societé De LA Informacion Au Chili |
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Judith
Galvez-Diaz, Professor |
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Society of Information,
University of Chile, Chile |
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Les peuples autochtones sont le dernier chaînon
de la chaîne des liens dans les pays moins
developpées, dans ce contexte la société de
l'information que c'est par essence basée
sur la culture et les ressources humaines et pourtant
c'est la voie plus efficace pour aider aux communautés
locales à la reconnaissance de leurs diversité culturelle
ainsi que des droits à la gestion du territoire
,et de leurs ressources. |
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Ce scénario représente un défi
por le peuples autochtones,comment peuvent-ils
contrôler leurs usage dans leur vie quotidienne
et comment ils peuvent utiliser lesTIC selon les
valeurs culturelles traditionnelles ? |
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Au Chili, les peuples autoctones ont commence à transformer
la société de l'information selon
leurs propres besoins,tout en préservant
son identité. |
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Information Communication Technologies
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Transnational Networks
and their Support to Indigenous Human Rights
and Self-Determination |
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Ramiro Jordan, Associate
Professor |
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Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering |
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Jorge
Garcia, |
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Community and Planning
Department, |
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Simoni
Valadares |
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Department of Linguistics |
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University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM, USA |
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Indigenous Peoples around the world continue
to organize for claiming their human right to self-determination.
In spite of the fact that many Indigenous Nations
remain living in isolated areas, they have managed
to create alliances with International Non-government
Organizations (INGOs), which have allowed them
to prevent land deforestation, human displacement,
desecration of religious sites, pollution of rivers,
and to further their human right to manage and
control the natural resources within their communities.
In this context, the development of Information
Communication Technologies (ICTs) has opened up
new opportunities for communication and information
sharing. This paper addresses social, economic,
cultural and political inequalities in a global
world. It focuses on the development of human networks
and the use of ICT to counteract social inequality.
It will be argued that in the process of development,
marginalized groups can use ICTs as communication
and planning tools to create social, economic and
cultural development from within their own communities.
The Quadruple Helix paradigm exemplified in this
paper supports the notion that 1) strategic alliances
that include community as an integral part can
be the drivers of cultural, political and social
development and 2) that in the development process
ICT can also be used to generate economic opportunities |
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Privacy, Human Rights and
Technolgy |
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Hurriyah
El Islamy, Doctoral
Candidate |
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University of Strathclyde
in Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Decades ago, it would be much easier to ensure
that one is within a private sphere, ie, by simply ‘placing’ oneself
within an area where no other was there and that
such area had sufficient measures of protection
from public gaze. Presently similar state is more
difficult to achieve due to the advance of surveillance
technology which will allow the observation/surveillance
to be effected penetrating walls, from distance,
in complete darkness, etc. Seclusion of oneself
as a measure to ensure privacy has become no longer
sufficient. It is not clear whether such lack of
privacy that individual nowadays can expect is
due to the change of value of the society, the
advancement of technology or the slow response
of man-made laws. Regardless which factors contribute
most (if not solely) to the lack of privacy protection,
this paper proposes that each and every individual
has the right – or more appropriately - the “freedom” and
not a mere right – of private life. Thus
this paper aims to evidence that freedom of private
life is the fundamental doctrine that provides
for the general umbrella of protection of what
otherwise simply referred as privacy; as it will
also show how the legal recognition thereto will
afford comprehensive protection of one’s
right to privacy, even in the context of the new
digitalised world, where privacy intrusion is possible
in many ways unimaginable before. |
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Information Society,
Knowledge Society - Possible Without Freedom
of Information? |
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Peter
Johan Lor, Professor,
University of Pretoria, South Africa and |
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Secretary General, International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions,
The Hague, The Netherlands |
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Johannes
Jacobus Britz, Dean
and Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
USA, and |
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Visiting Professor, School
of Information Technology, University of Pretoria,
South Africa |
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Modern information and communication technologies
(ICTs) are seen not only as allowing
global economic activities and the sharing
of knowledge, but also as favouring transparency
and democracy by creating space and a public
sphere for civil society,. The Internet, and
in particular the World Wide Web, has proved
a powerful tool in both the manipulation of
economic activities and the mobilisation of
civil society. Much is made of the democratising
effect of ICTs in e-government. Yet there
are governments that attempt to control in
an authoritarian manner both who accesses the
Internet and what content may be accessed and
used. Two questions arise. At the pragmatic
level it must be asked whether such attempts
can at all succeed. Independently of
this, at a theoretical level the question is
whether an Information Society and, more critically,
a Knowledge Society can develop in the absence
of freedom of access to information, freedom
of expression and freedom to access the digital
economy. Based on this broad background this
paper puts forward four pillars of a Knowledge
Society: (a) ICTs and connectivity, (b) Content
and the usability thereof, (c) Infrastructure
other than ICTs, and (d) Human capacity. It
attempts to evaluate the effect of authoritarian
governmental control of access and content
on each of them. It is argued from an
ethical perspective, and more specifically
social justice that, while a technologically
oriented concept of the Information Society
may not be incompatible with severe state control,
a more multi-dimensional Knowledge Society
cannot develop under such circumstances. |
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Cyberactivism: A Transformative
Pedagogy of Adult Learning Online |
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Karim
Amirali Remtulla, Doctoral
Student,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education |
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University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada |
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Activists, either on their own or as part
of transnational civil society organizations,
are increasingly using the Internet as a means
to further their activisms (Rodgers, 2003). This
paper analyzes the discourse regarding cyberactivism
that has transpired so far (Chamberlain, 2004;
Dean 2001; Illia, 2002; McCaughey and Ayers,
2003; Rogers, 2003; Salter, 2003; Silver, 2003;
Vegh, 2003) by asking, “What does
cyberactivism mean to those who deem themselves
online activists, and, how do they perceive
their activism online?” |
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This paper begins with a textual analysis
of the term ‘cyberactivism’ to determine
what are its etymologies and histories. A
semiotic analysis then explores the tensions
that emerge and are at play within the expression ‘cyberactivism’. Finally,
a conceptual analysis of the term ‘cyberactivism’ traces
how the ‘concept’ of ‘cyberactivism’ has
evolved and mutated in recent history. These
analyses provide the necessary foundation for
the development of meaning around the
expression ‘cyberactivism’. For
the second part of the question around perceptions, this
paper utilizes a case study methodology by applying
the principles of Transformative Learning Theory
in Adult Education (Boyd and Myers, 1988; Clark
and Dirkx, 2000; Taylor, 1998) to Mr. Zeke Spiers
- a radical activist whose activisms comprised
both online elements - as documented by McCaughey
and Ayers (2003). To conceive of cyberactivism
is to be able to perceive it as a radical pedagogy
of transformation from the standpoint of the
activist. |
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By exploring cyberactivism, this paper aims
to broaden the discourse on culture and politics
in an information age. |
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